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Dollar General Rides Stretched Shoppers To Big Earnings

By: Taylor Reed

Dollar General just provided Wall Street with another example of how “stretched consumers” can be code for “very good business.” In its fiscal third quarter ending October 31, 2025, the chain reported earnings of $1.28 per share, blowing past analyst estimates around $0.94–$0.98, while net sales rose 4.6% to about $10.6–$10.65 billion and same-store sales climbed 2.5%, driven entirely by higher customer traffic. For a company known for fluorescent lighting and bargain laundry detergent, that’s a pretty glamorous beat.

The real takeaway for investors is where the growth is coming from. Dollar General says more people are walking through the doors—traffic up 2.5%—but they’re not spending more per trip, which fits a world where budgets are tight and shopping lists are ruthless. Yet management is squeezing more out of every dollar anyway. Gross margin jumped about 100 basis points thanks to better inventory markups and lower shrink, while inventories per store are down over 8% from a year ago. In other words, customers are counting pennies in the aisles while Dollar General quietly counts basis points in the back office.

Then comes the guidance flex. On the back of this quarter, the company raised its full-year outlook, now expecting net sales growth of 4.7%–4.9%, same-store sales growth of 2.5%–2.7%, and EPS of $6.30–$6.50, up from a prior range of $5.80–$6.30. That’s a pretty upbeat way of saying, “Yes, our shoppers are under pressure, but no, we’re not.” Add in the fact that roughly a quarter of Dollar General’s products are priced at $1 or less, aimed squarely at households earning under $35,000, and you get the paradox- the more people feel squeezed, the more the “neighborhood general store” looks like a growth stock.

Wall Street’s response to these figures was solid. The stock jumped sharply after the report, reaching its highest level in well over a year and leaving it up more than 45–50% in 2025, as analysts rushed to lift price targets and talk about “operational momentum” and store expansion plans that include hundreds of new locations in 2026. For investors, Dollar General has become a kind of “recession comfort trade”. While the macro narrative frets about consumers cutting back, the market is cheering a business that makes its living helping people stretch a paycheck—and somehow turns that frugality into one of the market’s more generous earnings beats.

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